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...book claims, Mailer was "the literary world's finest counterpuncher" since Hemingway, he no longer deserves the title or the hype. Pieces and Pontifications demonstrates that, despite a pugilistic stance, the author has deserted the ring for color and commentary in the broadcaster's booth...
...says Frank, "because the show ranged over such a span of years. In the old days, TIME often gave the cover portrait to the subject, or let the artist keep it. We had to locate and borrow back many covers, such as Roy Campanella's and Shirley Booth's. It added up to quite a search mission...
...lose a case, the situation has been trying for Marcum and his few reporters. Countian reporters have been stonewalled and physically attacked by county officials, and once, when word got out that the next issue would captain names of all voters who had entered the voting booth in pairs, the Times ran a banner headline proclaiming "Homer Marcum Buys 16 Votes at Pigeon Roost...
Rodgers has won the annual classic four times, but this time around, he's not making any predictions about his chances. "At this point, it's a big question mark," he said in a telephone interview from a phone booth somewhere in Rhode Island...
There are no women in the diner, or at least none with any speaking lines. Crammed into a tight booth and certain of their terrain, the guys can relax and laugh at the world around them. At the weird kid who memorizes all the lines from the movie Sweet, Sweet Success and recites them to no one in particular. At the enormously obese man who manages to consume all of the items on the left side of the menu--"that's not a human," someone exclaims, "it's a building with legs...